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f fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

A variety of agate containing sard.

A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

rackle. -- Satin flower (Bot.) See Honesty, 4. -- Satin spar. (Min.) (a) A fine fibrous variety of calcite, having a pearly luster. (b) A similar variety of gypsum. -- Satin sparrow (Zoöl.), the shining flycatcher (Myiagra nitida) of Tasmania and Australia. The upper surface of the male is rich blackish green with a…

A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

A reddish variety of limestone.

ed. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck (A.marila), closely resembles the American variety.

Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc. Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. W. Irving.

parallel position, and in sometimes of secondary origin. Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster.

A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.

ns of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby.

A large-flowered garden variety of the oxeye daisy.

-- Sheep's-wool (Zoöl.), the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina). -- Sheep tick (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest,…

A variety of blue slate.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

. -- Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. -- Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. -- Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.…